Last October, Qualcomm announced a new Arm-based chipset for laptops, the Snapdragon X Elite, which it claimed would do two things: dethrone Apple’s M-series chips as the best choice for people wanting both significant power and battery life; and make on-device generative AI a mainstream reality in the desktop world.
At the time, the new Snapdragon chipset looked promising, but it was only yesterday that the world got to see how big this push will be, with Microsoft unveiling new “Copilot+” laptops powered by the Qualcomm product. Lenovo, Samsung, Dell, HP, Acer, and Asus will introduce their takes on the Copilot+ PC around a month from now, all featuring either the X Elite or the slightly less powerful X Plus, which supposedly has the same AI performance as its sibling.
